The French parliament has handed a invoice that might make life lots simpler for a lot of foreigners in France – making the renewal of long-term carte de séjour residency permits automated.
For non-EU residents residing in France, the common renewal of the carte de séjour residency allow is one which takes up a major period of time, cash and emotional power.
Long delays at préfectures, issue in getting appointments and admin glitches imply that this course of is usually much more sophisticated than it sounds.
And a minimum of one French MP will get that – Parti Socialiste’s Colette Capdevielle describes the sophisticated renewal course of as a “obtrusive injustice”.
“We are managing to clog up the system for lower than 1 p.c of functions,” she advised parliament, describing the queues, the lengthy months earlier than an appointment might be made, the saturated platforms and, consequently, the lack of rights resulting in lack of employment, incapacity to hire lodging or interruption of well being cowl.
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“The administrative machine itself is manufacturing insecurity, we’re manufacturing undocumented migrants,” she concluded.
Her proposal is that renewal of long-term residency permits ought to turn out to be automated, without having to supply a file of paperwork every time.
This refers back to the carte de séjour pluriannuelle, and the carte de résident (10 years) – playing cards for individuals who have already been residing in France for a number of years and for which 99 p.c of renewal requests are granted.
The Capdevielle invoice proposes that these playing cards needs to be renewed routinely – a easy administrative request to ship out a brand new card, with out the applicant having to supply further paperwork.
The request needs to be routinely authorised, except the préfecture can exhibit authorized grounds for refusal akin to a critical legal conviction.
The movement was adopted by 98 votes to 37 – nonetheless, the federal government is towards the proposal and it seemingly handed on a day when most centrist or right-wing MPs weren’t in parliament.
Marie-Pierre Vedrenne, junior minister for the inside, acknowledged that “timeframes had deteriorated” for card renewal however defended the federal government’s opposition, citing authorized and constitutional dangers related to automated renewals “with out particular person examination”.
It will now go to the Senate, which is dominated by the appropriate and which is subsequently unlikely to approve it.
